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The Southern California Community Choir

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Formed under the direction of late gospel pianist and singer <a href="spotify:artist:5g1lWbZIQ0LCWbKmRJDSSn">Reverend James Cleveland</a> (1932 -- 1991), the Southern California Community Choir is one of the world's foremost gospel groups. In addition to singing for the Lord, the choir has lent their inspiring harmonies to albums by <a href="spotify:artist:2hl0xAkS2AIRAu23TVMBG1">Kansas</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3PhoLpVuITZKcymswpck5b">Elton John</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:0B6QEFtRnneEzb4iqjI0Nw">Arlo Guthrie</a>. Their collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:7nwUJBm0HE4ZxD3f5cy5ok">Aretha Franklin</a>, Amazing Grace, recorded during two live performances at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, reached the pop Top Ten and remains one of the best-selling gospel-pop crossover albums of all time. In a review of the album, the Rolling Stone Album Guide described it as "<a href="spotify:artist:7nwUJBm0HE4ZxD3f5cy5ok">Franklin</a> transcendent, returning to the source of her own -- and soul music's -- earliest inspiration." The Southern California Community Choir joined with the Cornerstone Baptist Choir to provide harmonies for <a href="spotify:artist:3PhoLpVuITZKcymswpck5b">Elton John</a>'s ultra-funky tune, "Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance)" on his Madman Across the Water album. The group's performance in Jerusalem was filmed for a documentary video, Gospel From the Holy Land. ~ Craig Harris, Rovi

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